We have in Europe things that look like free-re-fills. In some French
restaurants (but it's probably true in other european countries) you
have "buffets" : you choose what you eat on a table and you eat as much
as you wish. It's a good deal for the restaurant owner : more food eaten
(but not much more) and less work in the kitchen and in the diner room :
to choose the food you have to walk to the buffet and do the job of the
waiter.
Bryan Caplan a *crit :
> Related question: Why no free re-fills in Europe?
> --
> Prof. Bryan Caplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan
>
> "Is there anything more distinctly understood by all men, than
> what it is to see, to hear, to remember, to judge? Yet it is
> the most difficult thing in the world to define these
> operations according to the rules of logical definition. But
> it is not more difficult than it is useless. Sometimes
> philosophers attempt to define them; but, if we examine their
> definitions, we shall find that they amount to no more than
> giving one synonymous word for another, and commonly a worse
> for a better."
> --Thomas Reid, *Essays on the Active Powers of Man*
